Fire engines too heavy for roads

Five fire engines in South Yorkshire and the Humber region have been sitting unused since they were bought in 2007.

Each Combined Aerial Rescue Pump (CARP) cost the fire services more than half a million pounds.



However, the vehicles have not yet been used because they are too heavy to be driven legally on British roads.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service blamed "a supplier's cock-up" for the situation.

It'll be on the BBC iPlayer, though I think only in the UK, sometime on Monday.